The mysterious death that stalks the Marquette Woods threatens a million innocent victims — and points to a diabolical fifth column plot that Tony Quinn and his aides must uncover!
Even though other characters with a darkness theme came before him, The Black Bat struck a different chord with readers than his predecessors. Although he had a team like The Shadow, Tony Quinn’s mission was much more personal, a desire for revenge turned to a fight for justice. Where The Spider had darker adventures and higher body counts, The Black Bat stories showed a hero who brought evil to bear and made sure criminals paid their dues, but also showed restraint and control. This likely allowed readers to connect with him in a way they could not with other fictional pulp heroes.
The Black Bat debuted at a time when The Great Depression was ending and before World War Two truly began. Pulp readers were still stinging from poverty, unemployment, essentially the complete upheaval of their lives. They were also living in a world where crime was more prevalent and publicized than before. It is no surprise, then, that many latched onto a hero who not only went after crime with a deadly passion, but who most notably had been knocked down, defeated in his own way. The fact that Tony Quinn overcame his blindness to be one of the longest running features in Pulp Magazines owes quite a lot to this touch of humanity added to the character.
Thrill to Without Blood They Die, originally published in Black Book Detective #58 Summer 1943 and read with two fisted excitement by award winning voice actor Milton Bagby.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1: Shotgun Menace
Chapter 2: “Blind” Fisherman
Chapter 3: Old Country Doctor
Chapter 4: Vanished Victims
Chapter 5: Old Jep “Convicted”
Chapter 6: Strange Doctor Jess
Chapter 7: Double Trickery
Chapter 8: The Black Bat “Dies”
Chapter 9: Cool Corker Mann
Chapter 10: Raiders of Death
Chapter 11: Bloody Bit of Mud
Chapter 12: Missing Brief-Case
Chapter 13: Elusive Corker Mann
Chapter 14: Blood of the Dead
Chapter 15: Murder Shell
Chapter 16: The Caves
Chapter 17: Death in the Blood
Chapter 18: Death Slug for Quinn
Chapter 19: Mark for a Murderer
